Front Yards are for Partying!

Especially front yards along July 4th Parade routes.  Here’s a sampling of people-filled front yards in Takoma Park, Maryland yesterday morning.  The weather was perfect.

Note the swimming pools.

Okay, this one is actually a front porch and balcony party.

Even in a nonelection year, residents show their support for a local pol.

Now what’s terrible for partying is the type of front yard I like best – all-garden with no lawn.  These people have even turned their hell strip into a perennial garden, shown here in the foreground. Lo

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Home Safety in Baby’s Room

Bringing your newborn home for the first time can be a worrisome and frightening experience. On top of trying to understand your baby’s needs and wants, you also have to be alert to any potential safety hazards. Before it’s time to bring your bundle of joy home, prepare your house for you son or daughter to prevent any accidents. Here are some tips to keep baby’s room safe.

  • Remove any pillows, blankets and toys from the crib. Between family and friends and your baby shower, you can accumulate a large number of sleeping accessories. However, at such a young age, it’s not safe for the baby to be sleeping with all of them. By keep

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Hammock-Shaped Guest House Design

 

What do we need a guest house for? For the guests or to forget about everything in the world and relax. This guest house is exactly for this aim. Casey Key Guest House designed by TOTeMS Architecture has a form of a hammock. A hammock always reminds you of summer, relaxation and having a nap after lunch. Beautiful natural wood, beige and white, modern design – what can be better to have a rest? Thanks to big windows and a balcony the house has a perfect communication with nature but if you want – you may close the curtains. Every detail in the house makes you think of rest and calmness and forget about all the problems.

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Dovecote With Stand

If you live in a house and you have quite some space outside of the house and maybe you love birds, too, you might like to have doves, because they are nice birds , cute and the symbol of peace, too. So many people prefer building a special house for them outdoors, so that they can have the freedom to come and go as they please.

This nice-looking colombier or dovecote as it is called is made of teak and has a pole and a stand that allow it to be up in the air, perfect for the birds which need to fly. This particular model of dovecote seems almost too cute to be true and has a zinc cover that protects it against different types of weather.

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Vines are the signs of the times in good-looking local garden

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My plant identification course at Barron Collier High School’s AdultEd program concludes another six-week semester, but a new semester begins the week of June 6 on Thursday at

6:30 p.m. We will learn about 125 plants, plus many others that students bring into class. Please consider joining us and bringing photos of plants you cannot recognize.

A summer of vines

Sometimes, my passion for vines gets me in trouble with Suzie. I have limited room on the pergola here at Peace and Plenty, so I have removed the clerodendrum and passion vine to make room for new residents.

And what residents they are! F

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Want to Save Garden Writing in Newspapers? Hire Mark Twain As Editor

The funniest thing I’ve read in a long time: Mark Twain’s story “How I Edited An Agricultural Paper.”

Here’s a tidbit from the Twain character’s rant at the end, after being dismissed as editor:

You try to tell me anything about the newspaper business! Sir, I have been through it from Alpha to Omaha, and I tell you that the less a man knows the bigger the noise he makes and the higher the salary he commands…. I said I could make your paper of interest to all classes–and I have. I said I could run your circulation up to twenty thousand copies, and if I had had two more weeks I’d have done it.

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